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Its story

From the Southern Crown, some 1,305 light-years away, comes the light of this orange type K star. It set out around the year 720, when Irish monasteries illuminated manuscripts as if weaving endless knots. Much larger and more luminous than the Sun yet cooler, it glows with an ancient amber tone within a small crown the southern sky places delicately at the feet of Sagittarius.